Colonialism
Approaching colonialism from the perspective of pre-colonial literary multilingualism allows us to see it as intervening into already dynamic fields rather than making tabula rasa. In each case we noticed that genres other than the novel were locally important, like satirical sketches, journals, poetry, or Sufi literature. Despite colonial education policies that allegedly created individuals literate in either one language or the other, we see the emergence of new multilingual actors, and a gap between new ideas of language and literature and less exclusive tastes and practices.
Imperial Languages/Languages and Empire: A reflection
MULOSIGE's Francesca Orsini interrogates a new collaborative project that explores the interaction between languages and empire and suggests that 'imperial languages' as a conceptual category should be deployed carefully
SOAS CCLPS Critical Forum – Nadeschda Bachem & Yan Jia
Opening horizons to the multifacetedness of cultural production on the Asian continent using case studies from Japan and South Korea, China and India
Reading group on Education and Comparative Colonialisms
Education systems, and the literary works they prioritized, are an excellent inroad to outlining how literary forms and cultures responded to colonialism
Antonio Gramsci’s Anti-colonial Imagination podcast
Dr Thomas Langley (King's College London) makes a case for reading Antonio Gramsci as an anti-colonial writer. By turning to some of Gramsci’s lesser-known pre-prison writings we can trace lines of continuity that underline the centrality of questions of colonial and imperial power in his work, and foreground the ways in which his writing is characterised by a consistent attempt to locate Italy as a terrain of struggle in relation to broader contours of colonial exploitation and anti-colonial resistance.